Festival Greetings: (Un)Responsible Spectators

Uvodni pozdrav: (Ne)odgovorne promatraice

Standing in front of the start of another edition, we would like to start this festival journey with the question: what does it mean to be socially engaged? It is one thing to be socially engaged film festival in terms of programming films or artworks of socially engaged artists and film-makers. It is quite another thing to actually act. For that, the ambitions of Pravo Ljudski require partnership with the audience. Audience that can live up to the initiative. That is exactly the moment which takes us back to ourselves: are we responsive citizens? or we are only spectators Are we citizens in the real sense of the term, at all? We hope the process of rethinking of our engagement and our priorities will do well to all of us, who are willing to, persist, or at least try to be something more than passive consumers within our society, whatever and wherever it might be. Even more so, dont you think our silent acceptance of the system of values we are all privately disgusted from, is hypocritical? Where are the limits of this hypocrisy? When do we stop talking the talk and start walking the walk? We sincerely hope the artists who selflessly contributed to this edition of Pravo Ljudski will encourage us all to go back to ourselves: Am I truly responsible?

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Barbara Hammer was born 1939 in Hollywood, California. Considered by many as the mother and a pioneer of queer feminist filmmaking, Hammer has made over 80 works in a career that spans 40 years. Most recently, her films A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009), Generations (2010) and Maya Derens Sink (2011) won three consecutive Teddy Awards for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her trilogy of documentary film essays on lesbian and gay history Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995) and History Lessons (2000) has also received numerous awards. This year, Hammer was honored with her first US retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, followed with a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London, in the fall 2011.

Dr. Grit Lemke is Head of Documentary Programme at DOK Leipzig (International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film). She was born 1965 in GDR. Having worked as a construction worker at cultural venues and in a theatre, she went on to study cultural anthropology, literature and ethnology. She has worked for film festivals (Leipzig, Sheffield, Cottbus) since 1991, works also as a curator, journalist and film critic as well as teaches practical courses in visual anthropology. Lemke contributed as an author to several documentaries and publications related to documentary films.

Unique in her artistic expression and perspective, using avant-garde strategies to explore lesbian and gay sexuality, identity, and history, along with other unrepresented voices, she engages her audiences both emotionally and intellectually with the goal of mobi- Jean-Gabriel Priot was born in France in 1974. lizing to effect social change. He is an artist and a filmmaker based in Tours, France. He has directed numerous short and midIn the late 1960s, when drawn to experimental film length films, both in video and cinema. He develops while studying at San Francisco State University, his own editing style using archive materials. Beshe comes out as a lesbianan act that helps radi- tween documentary, animation and experimental, calize her approach to directing. Her films from the most of his works deal with violence and history. 1970s deal with the representation of taboo subjects His works have been shown extensively around the through performance while the 1980s are marked world, winning a number of awards, including the by her use of an optical printer so to make films that Grand Prix at the Tampere International Film Fesexplore perception. In the 1990s she starts making tival, USA and Best International Short at the Cork documentaries about hidden aspects of queer histo- International Film Festival, Ireland. ry. In her own words, It is a political act to work and speak as a lesbian artist in the dominant art world His last works, including Regarder les Morts (Lookand to speak as an avant-garde artist to a lesbian and ing at the Dead), Les Barbares and Lart Delicat de la gay audience. My presence and voice address both is- Matraque, were shown worldwide in numerous fessues of homophobia [and] the need for an emerging tivals and were honoured with many prizes. community to explore a new imagination.

Truls Lie is the editor-in-chief of DOX, the European film magazine. He also works internationally as a documentary filmmaker (in the Middle East) and a film critic. For 15 years heworked as the publisher/editor-inchief of the Norwegian cultural weekly newspaper Morgenbladet (1993-2003) and the Scandinavian edition of the radical political monthly Le Monde diplomatique (2003-2008). He studied philosophy and media in Oslo, New York and San Francisco.

Veton Nurkollari is the Director of Programming for DokuFest, Kosovos largest documentary and short film festival, which he co-founded in 2002. He is also the curator of DokuPhoto, an annual showcase of documentary photography that runs alongside the film festival.

He is currently involved in the promotion of film Trenutno radi na promociji filma kroz seriju sedthrough a series of weekly screenings of educational minih projekcija obrazovnih dokumentaraca, pod naslovom Dokumentarni ponedjeljci. documentaries titled Documentary Mondays. Veton is the member of the advisory board of the Balkan Documentary Center and is also a member of the selection committee of Cinema Eye Honors, an organization that recognizes and honors exemplary skill in nonfiction filmmaking. Veton je lan savjetodavnog odbora Balkanskog dokumentarnog centra, a takoer je lan odbora za selekciju Cinema Eye Honors, organizacije koja prepoznaje i odaje priznanje za uzorne vjetine u snimanju nefikcionalnih filmova.

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Perfect WorldSculpture. Author Nela Hasanbegovic

Savreni svijetSkupltura, autorica Nela Hasanbegovic

Nela Hasanbegovi was born in 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She received her BFA in 2007 and her MFA in 2010 at the Department of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, under the mentorship of professors Mustafa Skopljak and Sadudin Musabegovic. During the last six years she has participated in the local and international art scene through solo and group exhibitions, including: Pod velom.../Under the Veil... performance, city gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BiH (2010); Izmeu/Between, Gallery Duplex/10m2, curator: Pierre Courtin, Sarajevo, BiH (2010); Between, Sreie Gallery/Celica/Metelkova, curator: Vesna Krmelj, Ljubljana, Slovenija (2008); VidoSalon phmre, Point phmre Gallerry, Nuit Blanche, curators: Pierre Courtin and Baptiste Debombourg, Paris, France (2010); Element zemlja/Element Earth, city gallery Fonticus, curator: Eugen Borkovsky, Gronjan, Istria, Croatia (2010); Nonplaces, Gallery Giuseppe Negrisin, curator: Eugen Borkovsky, Muggia (TS), Italy (2010); Tvrav@rt, Gallery Rui, curator: Ivan eremet, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (2010); Looking Forward, South Eastern Europe Contemporary Art, selector: Vefik Hadismajlovi, National Museum of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro (2010); Experimental Cinema/BiH video Art selection, Rauland Kunstforening (Art Association), curators: Igor Bonjak/Mona Bentzen (Norway), Rauland, Norway (2009); Nela Hasanbegovic has received several awards for her artworks. Her works can be found in several public and private collections, in the collection of the Olympic Museum Sarajevo (video works), Galery Duplex/10m2 Sarajevo, etc. She uses various media in her work, from sculpture and objects to installations, performances and video. She has been a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2007.

Perfect World ironises contemporary life on the planet Earth. The work treats contemporary society as dependent on technology, robotics and other scientific discoveries intended to make life easier, but in reality, quite the opposite happens, leading human civilisation to dehumanisation and absolute ruin. The Earth is represented as a black modulea bomb or a machine, an antipode to the organic form, which bombards the viewer with its aggressive content and contributes to the overall experience of the work. While preparing the work I used materials which I found in different places, nooks and corners, legal and illegal rubbish tips, says Nela. The objects I used include old computer cooling fans, motherboards, cabling, players, monitors, bulbs, timers, pipes containing oils, other various liquids and other waste of consumer society.

Micha Marczak has lately been committed to working on documentary and fiction projects, both as director and cinematographer. Prior to this, from 1999 to 2003, he directed numerous music videos and advertisements. His filmography includes Stillness (2006), A Woman Sought (2009) and At the Edge of Russia (2010).

One of the Russian armys last existing outposts, seen through the young eyes of a 19-year-old rookie. In the midst of the vast and frozen nothingness, and more than a thousand kilometres from the nearest tree, a handful of old soldiers and their young assistant are left to deal with themselves, the magnificent nature and the antiquated political ideas that keep them on their toes, as they ward off invisible enemies from the Russian borders. Young Aleksey has to gain the respect of his ageing superiors in the more or less absurd and pointless rituals and routines of everyday life. At the Edge of Russia does not criticise, but instead provides a human image of isolated men who are looking for refuge from the unwieldy chaos of civilian life within the selfimposed order and discipline of the army. Festivals/awards Planete Doc Review, Warsaw 2010 - Magic Hour Award, main prize for best documentary / Prix Europa, Germany, 2010 - nominated: Best European Feature Length Documentary / Jihlava East Silver, Czech Republic, 2010 - Silver Eye Award for best feature length documentary / X International Documentary Film Festival FLAHERTIANA, Russia, 2010, Fipresci Special Mention / Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada, 2011 (HBO Emerging artist award, Filmmakers choice award / Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland, 2010 - Etat dEsprit Special Mention / 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival / DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel / Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA / True/False Film Festival, USA / CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival / PLUS CAMERIMAGE - International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, Poland.

Mieko Azuma was born in 1977 in Kyoto, Japan. After three years of art school, she studied traditional Japanese arts and crafts with a focus on artistic casting at the Kanazawa Art Academy from 1996-2000. Since 2001, she has studied documentary and television journalism at the Munich HFF. In 2008 she won the Munich Starter-Filmpreis and the DAAD award for her films Yuri about Love (director) and Tuesday (director of photography).

There are places that dont reveal their past easily. Hiroshima is one of them. On a clear August morning 66 years ago, hell literally broke loose here. Yet strolling through todays city this is hardly noticeable. Businessmen are hailing taxi cabs, teenagers are streaming through the malls after school, people live their everyday livesjust like on 8/6 1945. The Japanese filmmaker Mieko Azuma shows Hiroshima in a very unobtrusive way in this semi-fictional documentary about memory, remembrance and imagining the past. Theres no historical footage, no mushroom cloud, no explosion in this film. Azuma doesnt want us to leave the present we can so easily relate to. We are forced to find the history of Hiroshima in its people, faces and stories of today. Festivals/awards FID Marseille 2011

Mantas Kvedaravicius was born in Birzai, Lithuania in 1976. He holds a Masters Degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Oxford and is currently completing his PhD dissertation and a book manuscript on the effects of pain at the University of Cambridge. Kvedaravicius has taught university courses on religion, law, and political theory in New York, and since 2006 he has been conducting research on torture and disappearances in the North Caucasus. Barzakh is his debut film.

In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes all become commonplace. When the disappeared do return in dreams, they are said to come from Barzakh a land between the living and the dead. Festivals/awards Berlinale, Panorama Dokument: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Special Mention & Amnesty International Film Prize / DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival / Vladivostok International Film Festival / VIENNALE - Vienna International Film Festival

One autumn day I took a photograph from a bridge in the outskirts of my city, says the director. A great river wound through the landscape. With each snap the view revealed something more about itself, leaving me feeling something in it is breathing and pulsating, hidden from the rest of the world.Andrea Deaglio born in 1979 in Torino where he studied Film and started working in IT. In 2007 he made Nera Not the Promised Land, a documentary about Nigerian girl forced to a life of prostitution on the street. He currently works as an author of documentaries and video projects for Mu produzioni audiovisive.

Dirt roads that become labyrinths, cities, universes. Men moving through vegetation suspended between land and water. Angelo, Gerardo and other farmers are claiming the land they have taken and tended for many years as their own. Roky, Darius and Jasmina live in an informal settlement on the river bank with over 500 other people. Frida goes looking for heroin in a huge open-air drug market. And where all city roads end is where Reno has settled after loosing his house and job. Festivals/Awards Torino Film Festival 2010 / Cinema Du Reel 2011

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In directors own words, In The Land that Is Like You is a progress on the tracks of her lost past, in trying to get in touch with her mother, grandmother and a man who she loved, in a country which escapes from her and captivates her - Lebanon.Maya Abdul-Malak is a graduate of contemporary literature, and has collaborated on many films as an assistant scriptwriter and a scriptwriter. In The Land That Is Like You is her first film, and she is currently writing her second.

Thierry Paladino was born 24 July 1981 in Nice, France. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Marseille and Aix-en-Provence and also attended the Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. With others graduates from the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing Maciej Cuske, Marcin Sauter and Piotr Stasik - he created a film group called Paladino.

Film La Machina is an ordinary and at the same time poetic journey of an old puppet master and his young apprentice. This is a boys first journey. He is inexperienced and excited: he is going on his first journey. The master, on the other hand, is well aware of the fact that it might be his last journey. Its a sunny southern summer and they set off for a long tour in an old truck. They packed lighting, a little stage and the sleeping puppets. They go from town to town to perform for the people from the villages, taking with them their own world and their stories. Festivals/awards East Silver, Czech Republic / International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, Poland

At the edge of a city growing from the desert, a man plays alone on a golf course. Another one, sleepless, sends a letter from a labour camp to his wife in Kenya. A sand storm hits a construction site, and the locals hold a strange celebration.Srdjan Kecas work has recently explored more deeply the corporeal reaction to our built environment - a science of fragility of sorts that has taken him to Asia. Another strand of what he does is based in the Balkans and tries to extract the universal from the convoluted historical narratives. He recently completed his MA at the National Film and Television School, prior to which he studied at the Ateliers Varan. His former background is in physics, the precision of which he tries to bring into his artistic practice.

Dubai, usually seen either as a miracle of development or a failed gimmick, here becomes a set for a visual exploration of displacement, longing and desire. In three chapters, the city, the surrounding desert and their inhabitants slowly uncover some of the darker aspects of contemporary society while the ongoing economic meltdown spells the end of an era. Festivals/awards Open City London Film Festival 2011Best City Film Special Mention / Branchage Film Festival 2011 / Palic Film Festival 2011.

Pawe Kloc was born in 1971. He studied law at the Warsaw University. Pawe worked for HBO and At Entertainment Ltd. as a producer and director. He has directed commercials, music videos and TV programmes. He was awarded for Nationale Nederlanden commercial at the Euroshorts festival and at the RealHeart festival in Toronto for his short feature Dos Sombras. He is also an EAVE graduate. Phnom Penh Lullaby is his first feature-length documentary film produced by his production company Parallax.

Ilan Shickman left Israel dreaming of a new life. He now lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with his Khmer girlfriend, Saran, and their two young daughters, as he tries to make ends meet as a street fortune-teller. Ilan works at night, near bars frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers. He decides to place his older, 2-year-old daughter with Sarans family in the countryside, but her family doesnt want to care for Marie for free. Ilan and his family have to return to Phnom Penh, and he still must decide about Maries future. Phnom Penh Lullaby is an intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance. Festivals/awards Visions du reel, Switzerland / 51st Krakow Film Festival, Poland: Silver Horn in the International Documentary Competition, Silver Hobby Horse in the National Competition / Hot Docs, Canada / Sheffield Doc/Fest, United Kingdom / 31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, USA / Dokufest Kosovo / Split Film Festival, Croatia / DOK Leipzig, Germany / Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland / Camden International Film Festival, USA

Macarena Aguil was born in 1971. She studied audiovisual communication at the ARCOS Professional Institute. Since 1997 she has worked as an Art Director in movies and TV series such as Paradise B and Justice for All, directed by Nicolas Acua, and has worked on the feature film Eternal Blood directed by Jorge Olguin, among other things. In 2003 she decided to work on a documentary that tells the story of a part of her childhood, and she brought together her old friends. The Chilean Building is her first film.

Towards the end of the 70s, the militants of MIR exiled in Europe decided to return to Chile in order to support the fight against the military dictatorship there. Those who were able to help in a legal manner did so, while others helped clandestinely. Many had children and couldnt return with them, and so the idea of a community center to shelter these children was born. Project Home gathered 60 kids that were left in the care of 20 people who assumed the responsibility of their upbringing for years to come. Festivals/awards Grand Prize FIDOCS 2010, Documentary Film Festival in Santiago / Honorary Mention at DOK Leipzig 2010, Young Talent Competition / Best Documentary CHILEREALITY 2010, Documentary Film Festival in Chilln, Chile / 2 Documentary Coral Prize La Habana Film Festival 2010 / Best Documentary PINTACANES 2010, Documentary Film Festival La Pintana, Chile / Prize Section Dictatorship and Human Rights Film Social Festival by Valparaso 2011, Chile / Teen & Docs Prize DOCS Barcelona 2011 / Special Jury Awards International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias 2011 / Best Documentary Mostra de Cinema Latinoamericano de Catalua 2011 / Honorary Mention Festival de Las Amricas Austin, Texas 2011 / Best Documentary New York Latino Film Festival 2011

Alberto Garcia Ortiz graduated at the University of Edinburgh in 1995. Soon he discovered his real passion: documentary cinema. From then on, he attended several courses and workshops related to the cinema. He is the director of many short documentary films. Agata Maciaszek was born in d, Poland, 1980. At the age of 12 she moved to Spain, where she graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. She supplemented her cinema education with several workshops, including one with filmmaker Jose Luis Guern, who greatly influenced the way she sees documentary cinema. She combines her work in film/ video direction and production with audiovisual translations for the Spanish National Filmhouse. In 2006, Alberto Garca and Agata Maciaszek release their first documentary feature film A ras del suelo (Ground level) about the constant renovation process in the neighbourhood of Lavapies (Madrid).

The Ulysses is a documentary film which approaches the dilemmas, contradictions and personal tragedies of international migration to Europe through the very specific story of a group of young men from the Indian Punjab (Sikhs) currently trapped in the forests of Ceuta, a tiny Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast. In the densely forested hills above Ceuta, 57 young Indian immigrants await their fate in a shanty community theyve built to avoid deportation. With lush visual style, the film accompanies them in their daily trials as they scramble to survive, waiting to cross the last 14 km that separate them from Europe. It captures both the suffocating anguish of the situation and the flashes of humour and joy which allow these young men to maintain their dignity and their hope. Festivals/awards Vivisect Human Rights Festival Novi Sad 2011, Serbia, official selection / On the roads Migrant Film Festival 2011, Slovenia / Prnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival 2011, Estonia / Human Rights Film Festival Sucre 2011, Bolivia / Ethnological Film Festival Belgrade 2011, Serbia / 60 DOCSDF International Documentary Film Festival 2011 - best iberoamerican documentary official selection, Mexico / DOKLEIPZIG 2011, official selection Young Talent Competition, Leipzig, Germany / Document 9, Human Rights Film Festival 2011, Glasgow, UK / International Film Festival 2011, Valdivia, Chile

A son of Spanish immigrants, Olivier Laxe was born in Paris in 1982, and studied film at Pompeu Fabra University. He moved to Tangiers where he created Dao Byed, a 16mm film workshop with children. This workshop led to his first feature film, Todos vs sodes capitns. In 2007 he filmed Suenan las trompetas ahora veo otra cara, a short film homage to Andrei Tarkovski. This film was screened at the National Gallery of Dublin and the Reina Sofia Modern Art Museum. That same year he also filmed a medium-length 16mm film titled Pars #1, which won the First Prize at Filminho, a meeting of Portuguese and Spanish filmmakers, and at the Playdoc Documentary Film Festival in 2009. This film was also screened at the BAFICI, the IndieLisboa International Film Festival, LAlternativa in Barcelona and Las Palmas International Film Festival.

A European filmmaker is making a movie with children living in a home for socially excluded youngsters in Tangier, Morocco. While filming, the directors unorthodox methods of working cause his relationship with the children to disintegrate to such an extent that the initial course of the project is altered. Conflict ensues between director and children, and apparently, he gets ejected from the project. To save the project (and to keep the kids in the movie), he recruits a local friend, Shakib (Shakib Ben Omar), a fanciful musician and former street kid, to take over. The film tries to capture the spirit of the project, all the while revealing the sights and sounds and the ways and characters of Tangier. Festivals/awards Quinzaine des Ralisateurs Cannes Film Festival, France, FIPRESCI award / Minsk International Film Festival, Belarus, Special Diploma For the Dance with Reality / Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina, Signis award / Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijn, Spain, Youth jury award / Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Cineuropa award / DocsBarcelona International Film Festival, Spain, Nou Talent award / Play-Doc, Spain, Best feature-length documentary / Festival Cinemateca Uruguaya, Uruguay, Best Film - Iberoamerican section / Festival Europeo de Cine Invisible, Spain, Best Film / Festival de Cine Lima Independiente, Per, Best Film / Picnick Film Festival, Santander, Spain, Best Film / CPH:Dox Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark / True-False Film Festival, USA / DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo

Our Persian Rug / Na perzijski ilim

The Castle / Tvrava

The Four Times - Le Quattro Volte / etiri puta

Michelangelo Framartino

Italy, Germany, Switzerland / 2010 / 88

The Good Life / Dobar ivot

Eva Mulvad

Denmark / 2010 / 87

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6th Re:versusPissing Against The Wind or the Remodeling of Hypnotic Powers of Festivalized Cultureby Mario Hibert The open distribution of cultural commons that Pravo Ljudski advocates within the public space emerged from a programming orientation whose key aim is to enable a selection of most valuable recent documentary productions to be freely shared with the community. The cultural commons that are our screenings focus on target different topics and forms of social disintegration, the demolition of human bonds, but also on their revitalization in spite of forces that want to control, survey, and manage our destines. its forms no longer bear witness to lifes spontaneity and the independence of all that exists. The autonomy of art, luckily still existent, and can only be ensured by its models of distribution, organized at the grassroots level according to new ways of socialization and propagation. Does Pravo Ljudski have the answer to the systemic cynicism of the cultural industry of festivalisation? Can we at all speak about the political character of the Pravo Ljudski communication platform?

This years Re:versus selection follows similar If we are capable to understand the ideological principles. generalisations about democracy, human rights, Our Persian Rug, speaks about a struggle against and the market, then we also have the responoblivion, a rope of silence that is being unthread- sibility to act with political awareness, which ed through intimate recollections, Le Quattro means with readines to articulate and model reVolte is a humble reminder of cosmic sensitivity sistance that might destabilize and repoliticize and the elliptical shifts of birth and death, The the mainstream media, mainstream festivals, Good Life, reveals the misery of communication, and mainstream NGO culture. In other words, via both a tragic and comical portrayal of the frol- the real question is, as Andrej Nikolaidis recently icking and the fragility of the privileged classes, wrote: how much cynicism can there be found Auf Wiedersehen Finnland, emphasizes how fear in activism which is aware of its impotence but controls our present when past is denied, If a Tree active in spite of that fact, and how much activFalls actualizes the hopes found in decentralized, ism is found in cynicism that refuses such kind radical resistance, Il Castelo reaffirms facts about of activism? The critique of commodified, comthe Fortress of Europe, Restrepo, chronicles the mercialized models of the cultural paradigm horrors from the first lines of fire, and finally, communicated by Pravo Ljudski over the last six Nostalgia de la Luz, touches the universe of re- years presents an attempt to model thinking and flections upon life itself, through an astronomi- organizing culture from the bottom-up. It is a mode of dissent, withdrawal and protest against cal search for missing persons. participation in the trendy cultural management The neoliberal destruction of solidarity by un- production that Dean Duda sees as a simulation regulated, individualized accumulation of capital of a concern for local communities, the shaping of constantly threatens all forms of organized collab- an empty moral gesture which is in most cases oration. Since the global reversal directed by the only a form of empty postcolonial snobism. predatory appetites of deregulation is ongoing, the quest for resurrection of organizing models that Re:versus is the voice/ the choice of giving, it is could utilize the power of collective creativity in pissing against the wind. favor of the common good seems to be urgent. The field of culture is reigned by market control and it will reach its final totalitarian shape once

Director Virpi Suutari (born in 1967) spent her childhood and youth in Northern Finland, and now works as a journalist and film director in Helsinki. Suutaris previous work includes a number of internationally awarded documentaries, including Synti (Sin, 1995), Valkoinen taivas (White Sky, 1998), Joutilaat (The Idle Ones, 2001) and Pitkin tiet pieni lapsi (Along the Road Little Child, 2005).

Elma, Roosa, Terttu and Kaisu were among the hundreds of Finnish girls who left Lapland with the retreating German troops and set out on a journey towards Germany in the fall of 1944. What was their unusual journey like? How were the German soldiers sweethearts received when they returned home? It is only now that the women are able to speak about their forbidden love, their journey and the bitter homecoming that followed. Festivals/awards DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2010. / The 63rd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2010. / Nordisk Panorama, Bergen, Norway, 2010. / DOK Leipzig The 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2010. / Nordic Film Days Lbeck, Germany, 2010. / One WorldInternational Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011. / The 14th Flying Broom International Womens Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey, 2011. / FinnFest, San Diego, USA, 2011.

Marshall Curry got his start shooting, directing, and editing the documentary, Street Fight, which followed Cory Bookers first run for mayor of Newark, NJ and was nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy. In 2005 Marshall was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and he was awarded the International Documentary Association (IDA) Jacqueline Donnet Filmmaker Award. In 2007 he received the International Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC in Cannes.

In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front-- a group the FBI has called Americas number one domestic terrorism threat. For years, the ELF operating in separate anonymous cells without any central Leadership had launched spectacular arsons against dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment. With the arrest of Daniel and thirteen others, the government had cracked what was probably the largest ELF cell in America. Festivals/awards Documentary Editing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival / Best Documentary Award at the Nashville Film Festival / Environmental Visions Award at the Dallas Film Festival / DokuFest, Kosovo / Lens Politica Film and Media Art Festival, Finland / DocsDF, Mexico / Abu Dhabi Film Festival, United Arab Emirates / Bergen International Film Festival, Norway / Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan.

Cyril Tuschi was born in 1969 in Frankfurt. In 1992, his first short film, Frankfurt at the Seaside (Frankfurt am Meer) was invited to several festivals in Germany. His other films include: Nightland (Nachtland, 1995) a Kafka adaptation - which was screened in Berlin and won the New York Academy Camera Prize in 1996, Turn (1997) and after several Music promos, he debuted with the road movie feature Slight Changes in Temperature and Mind (SommerHundeSoehne, 2004), which won the audience award at the film festival of the German film Ludwigshafen. Now Tuschi focuses with his company LALA FILMS on script development and international coproductions.

A documentary on the transformation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky from a perfect socialist to a perfect capitalist and finally, in a Siberian prison, becoming a perfect martyr. Khodorkovky - the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. Why didnt Khodorkovsky stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he come back? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky. Festivals/awards Berlinale / One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival / Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival / DOK.fest Munich / Melbourne International Film Festival / Montreal Film Festival.

Patricio Guzmn was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile. He studied at the Official Film School in Madrid where he specialized in documentary cinema. His work is regularly selected for and awarded prizes by international festivals. In 1973 he filmed The Battle of Chile, a five-hour documentary about Allendes period of government and its fall. The American magazine Cineaste, described it as one of the 10 best political films in the world. After the coup dtat, Guzmn was arrested and spent two weeks in the Santiago National Stadium where he was threatened with simulated executions on several occasions. He left the country in 1973 and moved to Cuba, then Spain and France, where he made other films. In 2005 he made My Jules Verne.

In Chile, at three thousand meters altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather together in the Atacama Desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of the mummies, explorers and miners. But also the remains of the dictatorships political prisoners. Whilst the astronomers examine the most distant galaxies in search of probable extraterrestrial life, at the foot of the observatories, women are digging through the desert soil in search of their disappeared relatives Festivals/awards Feastival de Cannes, World Premiere / Prix ARTE, 2010 European Film Academy Awards, Winner Best Documentary / Abu Dhabi Film Festival, 2010 Winner Best Documentary / Toronto International Film Festival, 2010 / Melbourne International Film Festival, 2010 / San Francisco International Film Festival, 2011 / Miami International Film Festival, 2011 / DokuFest, Kosovo, 2011.

The perplexing memories of a young man who cant forget his past. At the center of this family history is a Persian rug that his grandmother once wove. Staring at this rug, he obsessively leafs through photo albums to see which of his family members are lying and which ones are telling the truth. In either case, no one is talking.Born in Tehran, Iran, Massoud Bakhshi earned his high school diploma in photography and cinema (1990) and his BS in Agriculture Engineering (1995). He later studied filmmaking in Italy (1999) and Cultural Financement Formation in France (2005). He has worked as a film critic, screenwriter and producer.

Tim Hetherington is an acclaimed photographer and filmmaker. He was the only photographer to live behind rebel lines during the recent Liberian civil war work that culminated in the film Liberia: an Uncivil War and the book Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold. Hetherington is the recipient of four World Press Photo prizes. A native of the UK, he is based in New York and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair Magazine. New York-based writer and journalist Sebastian Junger is the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire and A Death in Belmont. He first reported from Afghanistan in 1996 and, four years later, was one of the last Westerners to accompany legendary guerrilla fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud during his war against the Taliban. His October, 1999 article in Vanity Fair, The Forensics of War, won a National Magazine Award for Reporting. He has also won an Alfred I. duPont Broadcast Award for his cinematography while embedded with American soldiers for ABC News.

Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistans Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 94-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you. Festivals/awards: Academy Awards, Best Documentary nominee / Grand Jury Prize Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, 2010 / National Board of Review, Best Debut Directors / Independent Spirit Awards, Best Documentary nominee / Full Frame Documentary Film Festival / Edinburgh International Film Festival / HotDocs, Canada / San Francisco International Film Festival / Silverdocs Film Festival / Traverse City Film Festival / Seattle International Film Festival, 2010 / True/False Film Festival / Zagreb Film Festival / Santa Barbara International Film Festival / Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Massimo DAnolfi was born in Pescara and he has been working as a video-maker since 1993. His Back Home, Notes for a Movie (2003) was selected at the Turin Film Festival. Together with Martina Parenti, he made The Betrothed (2006), screened at the Locarno Film Festival and awarded a prize at the Festival dei Popoli, and Great Expectations (2009), also screened at the Locarno Festival. Martina Parenti makes documentaries for cinema and television. Her The Summer of a Drinking Fountain (2006) was selected at the Bellaria Film Festival.

The castle is a film about Malpensa Airport - a place where bureaucracy, procedures and control seriously hamper the freedoms of individuals, animals and goods passing through. The airport is a strategic place where all law enforcement agencies in the country come together. Heres where new control measures are tested: a permanent security testing area unlike any other public place. Italian and foreign secret services, customs police, financial police, Carabinieri, security guards, sniffer dogs, closed circuit TV cameras everywhere and the ever-growing fear of an impending unknown danger. Festivals/awards Hot Docs, 2011 - Special Jury Prize International Feature / Visions du Reel, Nyon / Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2011 / EBS International Documentary Festival, Korea / Camden International Film Festival.

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.Michelangelo Frammartino was born in Milan in 1968. In 1991, he enrolled at the architecture department of the Politecnico di Milano, where he developed a passion for the relationship between physical space and images, whether in photography, video, or film, and self-produced a series of short films, video clips and video installations. He teaches film language and scriptwriting at the University of Bergamo, the ENFAP Lombardia and the CINELIFE education center, and he regularly participates in conferences and workshops on the use of technology in the field of art.

Director and journalist Eva Mulvad graduated from the National Danish Film School with the film In Between about three girls in their late 20, pondering whats it like to be mature. The film was selected for several film festivals in Europe, among others Odense Film Festival and Munich International Film Festival. Her film Enemies of Happiness won World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2007, Special Mention at the SilverDocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary in Washington, Best Feature Documentary at the Creteil Festival Films De Femmes 2007 in Paris, International Premier Award at the One World Media Awards 2007 in London, and other awards.

Two ladies - mother and daughter - live on the sunny Portuguese coast. Throughout their entire lives, they have had more than enough money to live the good life - no work and lots of pleasure. But now they have a problem: their wealth has run out! A jet set upper-class life is substituted by unpaid bills and constant fear of not being able to pay next months rent - and the daughter, who has never worked a day in her life, is now forced to forget her decadent lifestyle and try to create an independent life for herself at the age of 56. Festivals/awards Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2011, Best Documentary Award / CPH:DOX, Denmark, 2010 / 23rd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010. / Tribeca Film Festival, USA, 2011 / Visions du Rel, Nyon, vicarska, 2011. / Tempo Documentary Festival, Sweden, 2011 / MakeDox, Skopje, Makedonija, 2011. / San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 2011. / Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece, 2011 / Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Izrael, 2011. / Cape Town, Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, South Africa, 2011. / Planet Doc Film Festival, Poland, 2011. / Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2011. / DOK Leipzig - The 54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2011.

Robert-Jan Lacombe was born in 1986 in Mandima, Zaire, now the Republic of the Congo, and holds a dual French and Dutch citizenship. Since 2006 hes been living in Switzerland. He has attended the ECAL (cole Cantonale dArt de Lausanne) cinema department since 2007. His filmography includes Retrouvailles (2010) and Kwa Heri Mandima (2010).

Through home-movies discovered at my grandparents home in Bordeaux, I recount my childhood in Mandima, a little village in northeast Zaire, where I was born, says the director, Robert-Jan Lacombe. Starting with a panoramic still of the great departure, I observe and recall those first ten years of that young boy who would, one fine day, have to leave for the city, for high school. He left behind his friends and a whole way of life. That life, its way of thinking and its codes, were to be learned anew. Festivals/awards Locarno, Festival del film Locarno, Pardino doro (National competition) 2010 / Aspen, Aspen Shortsfest, Best Documentary 2011 / Lviv, International Festival of Short Films Wiz-Art, Audience Choice 2011 / Palm Springs, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Best Student Documentary Short Award 2011 / Sao Paulo, International Short Film Festival, Audience Choice Top 10 International short films 2011 (Appreciation) / Tabor, Desinic, TABOR Film Festival, Best Documentary 2011 / Tabor, Desinic, TABOR Film Festival, Grand Prix 2011 / Zrich, Schweizer Jugendfilmtage, Special Film School Prize (up to 30 yrs. of age) 2011.

In her film essay Grandfather Never Saw the Sea, Christine Hrzeler explores her own family history in an unusual and poetic way. The filmmaker interlaces family recordings, found footage and recent images into a visual and acoustic examination of her origins. Upon closer inspection, it reveals the frictions, cracks and unconfessed longings which ultimately Christine Hrzeler was born in 1967 betray domestic happiness as merely staged. Be nice to each in Solothurn. From 1988 to 1993 she studied Sociology and Ethnology in other, says the father. Were having a good time together. Fribourg and Zurich. From 1994 to 2001 Beyond the personal, Hrzelers film is astonishingly accurate in she collaborated on various research documenting the atmosphere of an entire era. The unease of the projects in Fribourg, Melbourne and Berlin. Since 1999 she has attended individual is also the unease of a generation which grew up in a various courses in film-making. Since supposedly free society, yet lived under the constantly looming 2001 Hrzeler has collaborated on documentaries as a production, directing shadow of the Cold War.and research assistant. Her filmography includes Morgenrot (2002), Feierabend (2004) and Grossvater hat das Meer nie gesehen (2011).

Anna Frances Ewert was born 1986 in Villingen. In 2007 she enrolled in the Film and TV course at the Edinburgh College of Art with the focus on making documentaries and graduated in 2010. In 2011 she started studying at the Munich Film School. Her filmography also includes 11 Degrees (2009), a short film which portrays the resilience of a Scottish ski resort trying to survive in spite of rising temperatures and declining numbers of skiers. The film won Best of Fest Award at the Fernie Mounatin Film Festival and BCN Sport Film Festival Barcelona award.

The documentary is about the uniqueness of childhood and the exploration of the human mind. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and can test out the boundaries of reality. This environment allows them to explore everything through their own experience and imagination which also brings to the foreground the arising of the personal and collective conditioning as well as the already existent personalities of each child. The forest becomes a place where normal rules and regulations of society no longer apply, a place where the children transform the surroundings with their play into magic. Festivals/awards Helen A. Bequest Award from the Edinburgh College of Art for best student production 2010 / Golden Gate Award for best short documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2011 / Guangzhou International Documentary Festival, December 2010, China / Punto de Vista, International Documentary Festival of Navarra, February 2011, Spain / ZagrebDox, February 2011, Croatia / FilmmorWomens Film Festival, March 2011, Turkey / Films de Femmes, International Womens Film Festival Crteil, March 2011, France / Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, April 2011, Qatar / San Francisco International Film Festival, April - May 2011, USA / London International Documentary Festival, May 2011, UK / Sehschte, 40.Internationales Studentenfilmfestival Berlin-Potsdam, May 2011, Germany / IDFF Cronograph International Documentary Festival, May 2011, Moldova / Huesca International Short Film Festival, June 2011, Spain / Edinburgh International Film Festival, June 2011, UK / Prnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, July 2011, Estonia / Short Film Festival Srebrena Traka, September 2011, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Milwaukee Film Festival, September October 2011, USA / Tacoma Film Festival, October 2011, USA.

Mohammadreza Farzad was born in 1978. He graduated with an MA in theatre studies from Tehran university of fine Arts. He started a career in art as poet and literary translator. He introduced to Iranian readers for the first time some of most prestigious writers of world literature like Fernando Sorrentino, Aleksander Hemon, Tobias Wolff, Charles Baxter, Hanif Kureishi, etc. He launched his film career as an actor in short and feature films and then moved into documentary cinema as a researcher and editor. As a documentary filmmaker he has made films which were awarded and screened in national and international film festivals. His filmography includes Into Thin Air (2010), Blames and Flames (2011) and Egg (2011).

Into Thin Air is a short documentary film about the bloody massacre of innocent Iranian people in 1979, on 08. September, the month in which the director was born. The film concentrates on less than a minute of horrifying footage showing the killing of people unaware of the official curfew, and attempts to find out more about the identity of the victims. Into Thin Air is a moving and compelling cinematic reading of any political massacre of innocent victims. Festivals/awards Jury Special Mention at Batumi International Film Festival, Batumi, Georgia, 2011 / Grand Jury prize, Tehran International Film Festival, 2010 / Best Editing prize, Tehran International Film Festival, 2010 / Nominated for best research, best directing, best film, Tehran International Film Festival, 2010.

No formal barrier on Gypsy Street separates the haves from have nots, but the division is tangible. Visually compelling, with frank interviews with the locals, this film proves that class systems do little more than engender prejudice and fundamentally divide human beings who live mere steps apart.Haukur Margeir Hrafnsson was born in Iceland on 4th January 1976. He made his first feature film (Un) natural in 1999, without any grants or funding. The project gave him an opportunity to use his skills as an actor to play the main role. He also produced and directed the film and became one of the few directors in Iceland who have managed to make an independent film. His second film, made in 2003, called April fools, earned him the support of one of the most famous names of Icelandic cinema, Fririk r Fririksson. He later moved to Poland to study directing and cinematography at Polish National Film School in d.

Natasha Mendonca is a visual artist from Bombay, India. She holds a BA from St. Xaviers College, Bombay in Sociology and Anthropology and a Masters in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2003 she overcame Indias tough censorship laws regarding homosexuality and co-founded Larzish, the nations first international film and video film festival on sexuality and gender, based in Bombay, India. Since then she has also programmed for other festivals including the Berlin Lesbian Film festival and Queer Zagreb, Croatia. She was a jury member of the Teddy Jury, Berlin International Film Festival in 2004. She is currently developing her first Feature film, AJEEB AASHIQ // STRANGE LOVE. The film received the Hubert Bals fund, 2011.

After the monsoon floods of 2005 that submerged Bombay, the filmmaker returns to her city to examine the personal impact of the devastating event. The result is Jan Villa, a tapestry of images that studies the space of a postcolonial metropolis, but in a way that deeply implicates the personal. The destruction wreaked by the floods becomes a telling and a dismantling of other devastations and the sanctuaries of family and home. In its structure, Jan Villa is a vortex, drawing to its center all that surrounds it. Festivals/awards The International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2011 (Tiger award winner) / Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2011 (Best Film of the Festival) / VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival, Switzerland 2011 / Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival, 2011 / Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2011 / Outfest Platinium Los Angeles, 2011 / 25 FPS Zagreb, Croatia 2011 (in-competition) / Southern Panoramas competition, Video Brazil 2011 / Vienna International Film Festival, Austria 2010 World Film Festival Bangkok, Thailand 2010.

Lesaw Dobrucki is a performer, musician and director. In 1998 he graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and in 2007 from Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing where he directed Booth of Fortune and co-directed The Crew.

Our heroine stopped praying long ago. As a thirteen-year-old girl she was brought from her native Turkey to Germany to marry one of her cousins. This is how her childhood ended she became the property of a husband who tortured and degraded her. She finally decides to flee, but must continuously be in hiding. Condemned by both families, she has no chance at a normal life, neither as a wife nor a divorcee. The film is not a typical intervention reportage, but a poetic collage comprising of documentary material, family photographs and childrens drawings. This individual life story reflects the stories of many other girls and women subjected to a patriarchal law still enforced by tacit consent in the multicultural societies of Western Europe. Festivals/awards 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic / DokuFest, Kosovo / Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland / Sheffield Doc/Fest, England / VERZIO Documentary Film Festival, Hungary / Vilnius Film Shorts, AustriaSecond Prize / DocumentaristIstanbul Documentary Days, Turkey / Womens Film Festival, USA / Expresin En Corto International Film FestivalSpeak Out Against Domestic Violence, Mexico Honorable Mention / 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Images of the 21st Century, Greece / One World Romania Documentary Film Festival / Huesca International Film Festival, Spain / Golden Apricot 8th Yerevan Film Festival, Armenia / CONCORTO Film Festival, Italy / International Human Rights Film Festival, Albania / Dokubazaar, Slovenia / Saratov Sufferings Film Festival, Russia / Cortopotere Short Film Festival, Italy / 6th Batumi International Art House Film Festival (BIAFF), Georgia.

Toms Sheridan graduated from Edinburgh Napier Universitys Film course in 2006; he has experience in most areas of film production and has applied his photography practice to develop skills in narrative through imagery. In 2008 he received support from Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland to direct his first documentary titled Archive of Dreams, which went on to win various prizes as well as has been screened in dozens of international festivals. His recent works as a director include Radiostan, made during four weeks of travel across Central Asia and When Life Throws Lemons, a documentary about unexpected pregnancy and the way it affects the parents.

In October 2009 a group of young filmmakers travelled over the 3500 kilometres that separate Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan from Moscow as part of Cinetrain. Along this route people spoke to them about whats on their mind: immigration, neighbours, the old days in the USSR, dreams and hopes. Just like the dial on a radio they roamed across the frequencies of Central Asia, hopping from one station to another, offering a unique and human insight into a remote part of the world that is rarely portrayed in the media. Festivals/awards Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival: Official Selection, 2011 / Uppsala International Film Festival: Official Selection, 2011 / 13th Mecal International Short Film Festival of Barcelona: Official selection, 2011 / Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, 2011 / Art Deco Film Festival, Sao Paulo, 2011 / San Gio Verona Video Festival, 2011 / Cinema City International Film Festival, Novi Sad, 2011.

The 8th session of the Central Committee of the Communist League of Serbia was held on the 23rd and the 24th September 1987. Historians agree that this session represents a symbolic turning point that led to the rise of nationalism and wars in former Yugoslavia. It was supposed to introduce antibureaucratic revolution which would direct the anger of the Bojan Fajfri was born 1976 in Belgrade popular masses towards transformation of the communist one(Serbia). He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and at the party system. Instead, it brutally increased social inequalities Rijks Academy in Amsterdam. He was and caused ethnic conflicts. Theta Rhythm is a reconstruction artist-in-residence as part of the ARCUS of one day of the 8th session seen through the perspective of Artist-in-Residence program in Ibaraki, Japan. His films and installations have Mirko Fajfri - the father of Bojan Fajfri, who plays his father been screened at various festivals and in the film.included in numerous exhibitions. He works and lives in Amsterdam. His filmography includes Theta Rhythm (2011), They are calling us (2009), The Dome (2009).

A Horse is not a Metaphor / Konj nije metafora

Maya Derens Sink / Umivaonik

Maje Daren Barbara Hammer

USA / 2010 / 30

Meshes of the Afternoon / Popodnevne mree

Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

USA / 1923 / 12

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Logics of Loveby Kumjana Novakova If philosophy is concerned with understanding the meaning of reality, then poetry - and art in general - is a celebration, a singing of values and meanings My films might be called experimental, referring to the use of the medium itself. In these films, the camera is not an observant, recording eye in the customary fashion. The full dynamics and expressive potentials of the total medium are ardently dedicated to creating the most accurate metaphor for the meaning. In setting out to communicate principles, rather than to relay particulars, and in creating a metaphor which is true to the idea rather than the history of experience of any one of several individuals, I am addressing myself not to any particular group but to a special area and definite faculty in every or any man - to that part of him which creates myths, invents divinities and ponders, for no particular purpose whatsoever, on the nature of things I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only in poetry, you will perhaps recall an image, even only the aura of my films. And what more could I possibly ask, as an artist, than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume, sometimes, the forms of my images. Maya Deren A Statement of Principles Film Culture, 1961, New York Barbara Hammer creates metaphors. Metaphors for the meanings, and thus truly safeguards film. Film - not experimental cinema, feminist cinema, queer cinema. Film, as a total medium. Inventing divinities, and challenging divinity. Pondering, and engaging. Dreaming, and acting. Thank you Barbara.

Barbara Hammer was born 1939 in Hollywood, California. Considered by many as the mother and a pioneer of queer feminist filmmaking, Hammer has made over 80 works in a career that spans 40 years. Most recently, her films A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009), Generations (2010) and Maya Derens Sink (2011) won three consecutive Teddy Awards for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her trilogy of documentary film essays on lesbian and gay history Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995) and History Lessons (2000) has also received numerous awards. This year, Hammer was honored with her first US retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, followed with a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London, in the fall 2011. Unique in her artistic expression and perspective, using avant-garde strategies to explore lesbian and gay sexuality, identity, and history, along with other unrepresented voices, she engages her audiences both emotionally and intellectually with the goal of mobilizing to effect social change. In the late 1960s, when drawn to experimental film while studying at San Francisco State University, she comes out as a lesbian - an act that helps radicalize her approach to directing. Her films from the 1970s deal with the representation of taboo subjects through performance while the 1980s are marked by her use of an optical printer so to make films that explore perception. In the 1990s she starts making documentaries about hidden aspects of queer history. In her own words, It is a political act to work and speak as a lesbian artist in the dominant art world and to speak as an avant-garde artist to a lesbian and gay audience. My presence and voice address both issues of homophobia [and] the need for an emerging community to explore a new imagination.

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer fights ovarian cancer with visions of horseback riding and river swimming in her new experimental film A Horse Is Not a Metaphor. Hammer says she is a cancer thriver as well as survivor in this hopeful and densely layered personal work with music by composer Meredith Monk. Hammer writes: Freedom is movement, freedom is ease. Freedom is a horse galloping with mane and tail flying in the wind. Freedom is my eye and mind following the flow of expression through movement. Freedom is riding my horse on a trail exploring the unknown and seeing with fresh eyes as the world becomes new again. A Horse Is Not a Metaphor is about the power of living in the present to the fullest and with the greatest freedom. Festivals/awards Berlinale 2009 - Teddy Award Best Short / Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, A Coruna, Spain - Best in Festival / Black Maria Film Festival - Jurors Award / Woodstock Film Festival / Northwest Film Forum / Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival / Punta de Vista Film Festival / Festival des Films des Femmes / Museum of Modern Art - Doc Fortnight.

Generations is a 30-minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, hands the camera to Gina Carducci, a young queer filmmaker. As they shoot during the last days of Astroland at Coney Island, New York, the filmmakers find that the inevitable fact of ageing echoes in Gina Carducci studied experimental film the architecture of the amusement park and in the emulsion of with David Sherman at California College of Arts and Crafts, and recently the film medium itself. Inspired by Shirley Clarkes Bridges Go she collaborated with Mattilda Bernstein Round, both filmmakers edited picture and sound separately, Sycamore on All That Sheltering Emptiness joining their films in the middle when they finished making a (2010) and with Barbara Hammer on Generations (2010). true generational experiment. Festivals/awards Berlin Film Festival - Teddy Award for Best Short Film / Black Maria Film and Video FestivalDirectors Choice Award / Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival / Silver Wave Film Festival.

Maya Derens Sink, a tribute to Maya Deren, the mother of avant-garde American film, evokes her creative spirit through a meditation on the architectural details of her homes. Fragments from Derens films are projected in the spaces where they were originally filmed while a ghost actor performs a script crafted from her writing. Much of my own moving image work has been reconfiguring lost histories, often of women, and bringing them to life again through experimental film. Forty years ago as a student in a Film History class I saw Meshes of the Afternoon and knew I should and could make film. I have for years wanted to establish Derens NY home at 61 Morton Street as a historic building, and, like so many fans, was desirous of visiting her Los Angeles bungalow where she and Alexander Hammid shot Meshes of the Afternoon. It seems so right that I return to Deren and her homes to access the private spaces known only through her films. I hope to open doors for others who may not know her work so well. By re-projecting the architectural details from her films back onto the ceilings, walls, floors, cabinets and windows of her homes I call forth her creative spirit and invite viewers to visit and walk inside the homes where Deren scripted, shot, edited, and projected her films., says Hammer. Festivals/awards Berlin Film Festival - Teddy Award for Best Short Film / Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival / International Documentary Association - DocuWeeks.

Maya Deren is born in Kiev in 1917, and dies in New York in 1961. In 1922, her family immigrates to the USA. She studies at the Syracuse University, where she discovers her interest in film. In 1936 she gets her undergraduate degree at New York University, and in 1939 she earns a Masters degree in English Literature and symbolist poetry. She worked as an assistant to the dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham, and made her first film in 1943, in collaboration with her husband Alexander Hammid. She organised independent film screenings in New York, worked as a photographer for newspapers, lectured at universities and wrote for magazines. She financed most of her works independently, and in 1947 she is the first film-maker to receive a grant by the Guggenheim Foundation. From 1947 to 1951 she shot a documentary on voodoo in Haiti, where she was initiated as a voodoo priestess. She wrote the book Divine Horsemen: Voodoo Gods of Haiti, which is considered the most accurate description of voodoo.

This first film is concerned with the relationship between the imaginative, and the objective reality. The film begins in actuality and, eventually, ends there. But in the meantime, the imagination, here given as a dream, intervenes. It seizes upon a casual incident and, elaborating it into critical proportions, thrusts back into reality the product of its convolutions. The protagonist does not suffer from some subjective delusion, of which the world outside remains independent; on the contrary, she is in actuality, destroyed by an imaginative action.(Maya Deren)

The surreal effect in Derens first films emerges not so much through staging as through the montage of elements of space and time into a new, unreal chronological order. Symbolic and psychoanalytic elements are used in equal measure. In dreamlike situations, several of the protagonists (Deren) identities encounter each other and transform into other persons. In Meshes, she is sleeping on a fauteuil, while simultaneously sitting at a table visa-vis. Through the window, she watches herself following a dark figure, which disappears around a bend. While approaching the sleeper, holding a knife, which repeatedly transforms into a key, suddenly a man appears in her place, and she finally throws the knife in his face.(Hans Scheugl / Ernst Schmidt jr.)

by Monja Suta Hibert / Art & Docs program selector Art & Docs the youngest program of this years Pravo Ljudski Film Festival is knitted of several exquisite film works, which represent a sharp poetic insight into different and often hidden worlds, each in its own way, and the processes of their creation. It was clear a long time ago that the talent of weaving the fabric of an art work cant be learned anywhere, not even in the cinema. However, there are many things we can and should do, provided we dont think that the process of learning is over the moment we step out from the seducing dark cinema hall. The film material of selected titles is life as such, made of incredible human efforts, saturated with the individual courage to believe and build alternative worlds which shouldnt be abandoned, not even by us sitting in front the big screen. Otherwise, we are left on mechanical pulse, a life stripped naked and without a possibility to find individual meaning and sense.

Jarred Alterman is an award winning filmmaker with Mott Music, a documentary film about a piano factory in the Bronx. As a Director of Photography he works with Merce Cunningham Dance Company & Charles Atlas His film, MINAS pt 1, a collaboration with kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken, premiered at Art Amsterdam 2010. He received an award for Photographing Evan Meszaros feature debut Windcroft. He photographed Alex Brooklyns I am A Fat Cat that won Best Film at RainDance Film Festival.

At the convergence of the rivers Oeiras and Guadiana in Southern Portugal, rises the 400 year old monastery Sao Francisco. Its light earthen walls, marked by the sun and time, house a labyrinth of terraces, gardens, and fountains, all offering secret places to contemplate. Originally built for an abbot and twelve monks, it is now a restored home and art studio. Geraldine and her late husband, Kees, and two sons, Christiaan and Louis, left Holland in 1980 trading a life of comfort for a monastery in ruins. A former dancer with the Dutch National Ballet Company, she left to pursue a dream having grown weary of the repetitious monotony of classical choreography. Festivals/awards SXSW / Full Frame / Best Documentary, IFFBoston / Edinburgh International / Rooftop Summer Series / Provincetown.

Florent Tillon is born in New Caledonia, in the South Pacific Ocean. Self educated filmmaker, he works and lives in Paris. He started to make films in 2007 observing a corporate building from its own windows, like a spy: Lobservatoire. Then, he made a 52 minutes documentary about a rabbit colony stuck in a huge traffic circle in the middle of the urban ocean of Paris. This film, Porte Maillot Traffic Circle, caught the attention of the producer Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin who gave him the opportunity to be producer for a documentary about Detroit. Before shooting Detroit in summer 2009, Florent Tillon made two short documentaries about the decline of Las Vegas and the 2008 crisis in Spain.

The automobile industry jumpstarted Detroits rise and made it the most industrialized city in the United States. But because of changes in American society and population demographics, the city lay deserted for decades and urban prairies complete with falcon, deer and coyote turning out the urban landscape in a B movie setting. Now an unexpected turn of events has created an environment where young people are moving back into the ruins of the former Detroit... are they a new kind of pioneer? Could this now be a way for America to be rediscovered? Festivals/awards San Francisco Film Festival / Directors biography

Meshakai Wolf, born 1979, is an artist, photographer and documentary filmmaker. He studied philosophy and anthropology at Emory University in the United States and studied film at the New York Film Academy in New York City. His first film, Gussie, an intimate portrait of his 105-year-old great-grandmother, screened at film festivals across the United States and won an award for best documentary feature at the Magnolia Film Festival. He is currently in production on a film about the traditional music and oral traditions of the Kurds in southeast Turkey and how they relate to the Kurdish peoples current struggle for cultural and linguistic autonomy.

On an invitation from the International Poetry Biennial, Muzafer Bislim, a prolific poet and songwriter from Shuto Orizari (Shutka), Macedonia, the largest enclave of RomaGypsies in Europe, travels to Paris in hopes of selling his lifes work a handwritten 25,000 word dictionary containing some of the oldest and most obscure words in the Romani language. But when the authenticity of the words comes into question, Bislim is forced to confront the sobering prospect of returning to his family empty-handed. Festivals/awards Rolling Film Festival, Pristina, 2011 / Chicago International Movies & Music, 2011 / VIVISECT Human Rights, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2011 / DOKUFEST, Prizren, 2011.

Miguel Gonalves Mendes, born in 1978, is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has directed four feature films and eight short films since 2002, a filmography that took him to renowned film festivals around the globe. In 2010 he directed Jos and Pilar, which gathered very positive reviews and prompted a unique popular movement in Portugal. Recently Miguel announced he will be adapting Jos Saramagos The Gospel According to Jesus Christ with an international screenwriter and a foreign cast and crew.

Jos and Pilar, a film by Miguel Goncalves Mendes, is a deeply moving story about love, loss, and literature. It follows the days of Jos Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Rio - their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his last masterpiece, The Elephants Journey, and how their love quietly keeps them go on. It is a glimpse into the life of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. Festivals/awards Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brazil, 2010 / VII DocLisboa International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal, 2010 / Audience Award at the So Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil, 2010 / Political Cinema Ronda International Film Festival, Spain, 2011 / Nominated for Best Film documentary and Best Director at Cinepor Portuguese Language Films Festival, Brazil, 2011 / Portuguese candidate for Academy Awards.

In a typical Polish industrial town begins The Work of Machines. The dance was created in 1968 to celebrate the Factory. Following the memories, it was possible to recreate the forgotten dance. This reconstruction becomes a time machine to the past, a trip to the era when production was supposed to mean a happy life.Gilles Lepore was born in 1972 in Porrentruy, Switzerland. He is a filmmaker, author of comic books and illustrations. In 1998 he graduated School of Visual Arts in Bienne, Switzerland. His first short, animated movie The Cage was screened in numerous film festivals. Maciej Mdracki was born in 1984 in Cracow, Poland. He graduated from the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University. Madracki is author of experimental movies and short video forms. Micha Mdracki was born in 1979 in Cracow, Poland. In 2003 he graduated from religious studies in the Jagiellonian University. He is a writer, scenarist and author of short literary and film forms.

Kiss Bill / Poljubi Billa

Love during Wartime / Ljubav u Ratno Doba

Gabriella Bier

Sweden, Denmark / 2010 / 92

Regretters / PokajniciMarcus Lindeen

Sweden / 2010 / 60

The Importance of Hair / (Vana je) kosa

Christina Hoglund

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Projecting Swedenby Melissa Lindgren & Agneta Mogren In recent years, Swedish documentary film has attracted attention for its creative and experimental nature. A new documentary wave has progressed characterized by films that are using new exiting ways of expression. By pushing the limits of the documentary genre itself, many films have reached great international success and increased cinema visits all over Sweden. The program curated by Tempo Documentary Festival for Pravo Ljudski reflects the essence of contemporary Swedish documentary filmmaking. The program includes close portraits, heartbreaking stories and visual documentations. Very intimate and political films both from a personal and observing perspective. With these films we want to give you a taste of what Swedish documentary can be, and make you curious and hungry for more Tempo on Tour is the travelling part of Tempo Documentary Festival, the largest documentary festival in Sweden. Tempo on Tour was created with the purpose to make documentary film more accessible in Sweden and to spread Swedish documentaries worldwide! Tempo Documentary Festival www.tempofestival.se

Emelie Wallgren has a background in language studies, art history and political science. Cinema studies in Paris were the starting point for her work with film. The significance of imagination for constructing meaning and identity is a recurrent theme, and her films often feature people living their lives somewhere in the borderland between fantasy and reality. Filmography: The Quiet One (2011), Kiss Bill (2011), Akes World (2010), Like a Free Lithuania (2009). Ina Holmqvist has previously studied Political Science, Journalism and Photography. She has directed several films on relationship-based themes such as polygamy in The Poly Family, teenage love in Fourteen. Filmography: The Quiet One (2011), Kiss Bill (2011), Fourteen (2010), The Poly Family (2009).

With the passionate kind of crush that only 14-year-olds can muster, Angela and Arina dream themselves out of their Stockholm suburb to Berlin. Their goal: to see and touch their idol, Bill Kaulitz of the German pop band Tokio Hotel, at Madame Tussauds. But just as the girls have their goal in sight, their world seems to collapse around them. A film about friendship, infatuation and the heartbreak of growing up. Festivals/awards Tempo Documentary Festival - Best Short documentary, the STHLM.DOC Award, One of the three nominated films to Swedens Oscar Awards (Guldbaggen), Best Documentary, 2011 / DOK Leipzig, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 2010 / IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2010 / Uppsala International Short Film Festival, 2010 / Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, 2010 / DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2011 / Gothenburg Film Festival, 2011 / Moscow International Film Festival, 2011 / Chicago International Childrens Film Festival, 2011.

Gabriella Bier graduated from the documentary department at the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theater in Stockholm in 1997. Prior to that she worked as a journalist for press and TV, with African culture and social issues as field of interest. Since leaving film school she has been working as a filmmaker. Her works includeGrnsls Krlek (2006) (Love without Borders), The School Photo (2003), Caroline (1999), Amaliegade (1997). Love during Wartime is Gabriellas first feature length documentary.

In the eye of the storm, in one of the worlds most surveyed conflicts, Osama and Jasmin try to create a life together. It turns out to be a near-impossible task. When a Palestinian and an Israeli marry, they lose the security and social network that are guaranteed to other citizens. Wherever they turn for help, they end up in a catch 22 situation. This is a film about love. A love without legal rights, a Romeo and Juliet story against a political background. Love during Wartime is about the human right to be able to live together. It is about a conflict that everyone has an opinion about, but that few really have any insight into. Festivals/awards CPH:DOX 2010 / Gothenburg International Film Festival 2011, Dragon Award Nominee / One World International Human Rights Festival 2011 / Tribeca Film Festival 2011 / Silver Docs 2011 / DokuFest, Kosovo 2011.

Montaa: Marinella Angusti, Kristin

Marcus Lindeen, born in 1980, is a playwright and director. Before working with film and theater he was a writer and a radio producer. Regretters is his debut as a film director. He graduated in 2008 as a director from Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. He made his debut as a director and playwright in 2006 with the stage production of Regretters at Stockholms Stadsteater. The production was selected as one of the best Swedish contemporary plays by The Royal Dramatic Theater and The National Swedish Television.

Though born as men, Mikael and Orlando both changed their sex to become women. Now well into their 60s, the two meet for the first time to talk about their lives and the one defining regret they both share, their sexual reassignment. Young director Marcus Lindeen tells this story only through the two mens dialogue recorded in a film studio. Marcus has also written a stage version of the film, a play that he directed in 2006 featuring Mikael and Orlando at Stockholms City Theater. Festivals/awards Swedish Academy Awards - Guldbagge for Best Documentary / Prix Europa - Best documentary production in Europe / Hamburg International Queer Film Festival Jury Prize / Queer Lisboa - Best Documentary / Kristallen, Swedish Television Award Foundation - Best TV Documentary / Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art, New York / Silverdocs Film Festival, Washington, DC / Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, Toronto / Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC / Tokyo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival / DOK Leipzig, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film / CPH:DOX 2010 / Nordisk Panorama, Bergen / Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Toronto / London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London / Expresion en Corto, Mexico City.

A story about losing your looks, suddenly, and what happens then. Well, its just hair - but what if your personality is more in the skin and your looks than you thought? A film about panic, grief and fear to lose the one you love. Or worse, to lose yourself.(The Importance of) Hair is Christina Hglunds second film. Based in Stockholm, she works as a journalist for radio, TV and magazines, mainly focusing on film issues. She graduated from Dramatiska Institutet (DI) / University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in 2008. Christina Hglund made The Zhang Empresses in 2005, which was awarded the best documentary for youth by Swedish Television in 2005. She also directed Centrifug in 2007 and Life in 2008.

Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin is a Swedish photographer and artist. In her works she often portrays representatives of sexual minorities. One of her most talked-about exhibitions Ecce homo presented modern versions of stories of the New Testament, such as Jesus riding a bicycle in a gay parade like in the Triumphal entry when he rode into town on a donkey. Civil Rights Defenders was founded in Stockholm in 1982 as the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. For a quarter of a century we were a part of the Helsinki movement but, as the world changed, we wanted a name that better reflects our work and objectives. We defend peoples civil and political rights and empower human rights defenders in Sweden and globally. Visit our website www.civilrightsdefenders. org to read about our work, and find out how you can contribute to our achievements.

Civil Rights Defenders photo exhibition Our Rights is made in collaboration with the photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, with the aim to increase awareness about the importance of Human Rights. The exhibition shows the consequences of human rights violations and at the same time ways in which human rights can be defended. Before Sarajevo, this exhibition was shown in Stockholm, Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina and Tirana.

Video-Salon: Curatorial Rebound Project

Duplex 10m/2: 05. 15. 11. 2011

Video-Salon: Kustoski rikoet

Duplex 10m/2: 05. 15. 11. 2011

Izloba

Art is what makes life more interesting that art. Robert Filliou The Duplex is a contemporary arts centre with international perspective. It is essentially dedicated to the creations of young artists and managed by artists, for artists and for their audience. The place is set in Stakleni Grad, downtown Sarajevo, between Mula Mustafe Baseskije street and the Ferhadija pedestrian street

Collective exhibition of video art gathering 330 artists: this is a fragmentary panorama of a contemporary activity whose formal multiplicity and abundance coerce us into questioning the reality of what is visual, its temporality and its mobility. We have no other ambition here than to open up a crack in the video-graphic universe, to give a glimpse of the richness and multiplicity of form of the medium, with no attempt at extracting one or several tendencies that would serve to somehow refine an act of showing that intends to be purely raw. No subjects, no central questions, no techniques, no set time limit. The curatorial work functions by ricochet. The gallery invites numerous artistes and several curators, as each of the artists can invite another, who in turn can submit the work of a third artist, etc. We present a free and empirical principle of accumulation of works, to which the spontaneity of the presentation corresponds: cosy salons, free access to more than 400 videos, flat screens and DVD players.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina you can be one of four: Serb, Croat, Bosniak or The Others. I Belong to The Others. The Others are: Jews, Roma, Germans, Poles, Bulgarians, Romanians, Hungarians.. even Eskimos (Yes, Eskimos!).Jasmin Brutus is a photographer living and working in Sarajevo. He works for major Bosnian newspapers and magazines. Also, he is interested in personal stories and projects whose he is pursuing. Jasmin got several grants including Ex-changes, sponsored by German government and SEE New Perspectives supported by World Press Photo and Robert Bosch Stiftung. www.jasminbrutus.com The non - profit organization Public ROOM is active in the Balkan region and beyond. Our activities and program empower the non-profit sector from the region, influence the national cultural policies and intensify the cooperation in the field of culture, arts, design and architecture. Our mission is creation of platform which will stimulate the positioning of the cultural and creative sector as sustainable partners in the decision making process.

Of all The Others, Roma people are singled out for the worst discrimination. Constantly derided, with no jobs and prospects for the future, all the financial help they should receive is diverted to other people. The following essay is made up of photographs I took last year in and around Sarajevo. It documents the lives of some of the Roma people in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I tick The Others box out of choice. Its my message to the government. The politicians will not succeed in repressing the spirit of those who do not think that the nationality and the religion of others are more important than anything else. We are all Herzegovians and Bosnians.

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The Cactus Hands

Marina Kelava / Art Kino Kriterion: 11. 15. 11. 2011

Ruke od kaktusaMarina Kelava / Art Kino Kriterion: 11. 15. 11. 2011

Marina Kelava (Bjelovar, 1980) graduated for the Zagrebs Faculty of Political Science, department of journalism. She works as a journalist and photo reporter for the independent and non-profit portal H-Alter. Her interests revolve around topics related to the relationship between man and environment. Following such stories, she traveled more than fifty countries around the globe with her camera. She covered several big international events, from the World Social Forum to the UN conference on climate changes in Copenhagen. Participation in actions of civil society is something she does regularly. Marina Kelava had three solo photography exhibitions and a series of group exhibitions. She is a member of Croatias journalists association, Croatias photographers assembly and the International Federation of Journalists. Kriterion is the first art house cinema in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the premises of the legendary cinema theater Tesla, in the heart of Sarajevo. One can visit Kriterion to see an art film, visit an interesting exhibition, or just to have a drink in the cafe bar Kriterion, in a relaxed atmosphere, enjoying relaxing music.

Once in Morocco, during my first trip outside Europe, I picked several pieces of cactus fruit with my bare hands. The next week I could barely hold anything in my hands, full of cactus spines. Hence the name of this small exhibited part of a collection of documentary photos, shot during the years that came, in Croatia and worldwide. It seems to me that wherever my travels took me or whatever my journalist assignments brought, the photos always told the story of people who reached for life and got their hands covered with cactus pricks.

Photographic and film archives are treasuries for creative documentary film-makers and filmlovers. Jean-Gabriel Periot, a film-maker who shapes experimental cinema and film language nowadays, will share with us the creative process starting from the stockpile of images and mute testimonies to articulated voices of history and narratives of present.

Jean-Gabriel Priot was born in France in 1974. He is an artist and a filmmaker based in Tours, France. He has directed numerous short and mid-length films, both in video and cinema. He develops his own editing style using archive materials. Between documentary, animation and experimental, most of his works deal with violence and history. His works have been shown extensively around the world, winning a number of awards, including the Grand Prix at the Tampere International Film Festival, USA and Best International Short at the Cork International Film Festival, Ireland. His last works, including Regarder les Morts (Looking at the Dead), Les Barbares and Lart Delicat de la Matraque, were shown worldwide in numerous festivals and were honoured with many prizes.

Lets Talk about Curating Film

12.11.2011 / Duplex10m2 / 12h00 How do festival selectors select films? What does it take for a selector to put up a film program? This Pravo Ljudski doxing session will bring together film programmers from all over Europe, open to share the secrets of film selection. From Stockholm, Sheffield and Leipzig, all the way to Prizren and Skopje, in Sarajevo we discuss our friends and collaborators. Let the programs open!Agneta Mogren, Director, Tempo Film Festival, Sweden

Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Creative Force Western Balkans

Self Images & Human Rights

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 13 November 2011

Creative Force Zapadni Balkan

Samopoimanje i ljudska prava

Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina 5. 13. 11. 2011.

Since 2009, the Swedish regional film organization, Film i Halland, has participated and raised funds for the Creative Force - Western Balkans project, funded and initiated by the Swedish Institute. The main objective of Creative Force - Western Balkans has and continues to be to work on development of media literacy among young people in the region of South East Europe. Alongside the promotion of personal rights and freedoms, Creative Force - Western Balkans is conceptualized so to empower the young participants from Sweden and the Western Balkan countries to take active participation in public life. Initially, during its first year, the project was a collaborative venture among organizations in Sweden, Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Over the years the network has developed and new participating countries have joined. The largest socially engaged cultural event in Kosovo, Dokufest, joined the project in the summer of 2011, while starting from this autumn Pravo Ljudski Film Festival from Bosnia and Herzegovina joined the network - sharing the visions and interests in relation to media literacy and the protection of human rights standards. Thus, the 6th edition of Pravo Ljudski hosts human rights animation school, welcoming young girls and boys from all over the region and Sweden to Sarajevo. The partners, apart from the media literacy classes and film seminars, have also developed a human rights and activism oriented program for the participants.

I am happy to announce the workshop in Sarajevo in collaboration with the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (November 09 - 14) . We are participants from Bosnia, Serbia, Sweden and Kosovo. The workshop is financed by Swedish Institute, Creative Force. The Swedish Institute initiative Creative Force is a joint project with the purpose to establish dialogue and creative forums for culture. It emphasizes the importance of culture in international cooperation, in strengthening democracy and in promoting freedom of expression. In 2009, we arranged a workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with Youth Centre in Jajce and Media Education Centre in Belgrade. Since 2009, we have expanded our collaboration to include, LBS High School in Kungsbacka; RFILM, Sweden; DOKUFEST, Prizren, Kosovo; International Human Rights Film Festival, Albania, and now Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are happy to continue to strengthen our media network in the Balkans. I am sure that we have many experiences and knowledge to share and exchange, now and in the future.

WORKSHOP The focus of the workshop in Sarajevo will be Movement. The idea that people should be able to cross any national border. For the workshop we will use The aim of the activities within the Pravo Ljudski Film audio from different people who have experiences festival sessions is to work with young people and let with borders and add stop motion images. them express themselves by using moving pictures, mainly through documentaries and human rights ani- Looking forward to continue shaping the future tomation. Alongside the production of the human rights gether with all of you. films, the participants will also present their works to Yours sincerely, the broad public of the festival in Sarajevo, as well as Birgitta Olsson to their peers from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina, Director within the Zoom Rights youth program. Film i Halland Supported by:

The Balkan Documentary Center is many things. On the outside, it is an old three-storey pharmaceutical lab in the center of Sofia that is turning into a place for distilling documentaries. On the inside, it is a network of Balkan filmmakers, a place for inventing, training, development and collaboration. Its a house with many doors that are open for Balkan filmmakers. Into the brave new world, of course. Some facts in a nutshell about the BDC Discoveries 2012 continuous training initiative: 7 Balkan projects 7 observers with decision-making capacity 10 acclaimed tutors 3 sessions BDC Discoveries 2012 Best Pitch award cash prize 2 Projects selected for DokLeipzig Co-production Meeting 2012 BDC Coaching Lab Co-Production award BDC Rough Cut Boutique at Sarajevo FF (6-14 July 2012) Call for BDC Discoveries 2012 for participants with Balkan documentary projects in development with international potential and observers with decision making capacity in the region. Deadline: 24 February 2012 www.bdcwebcsite.com

Pit No. 8 / Jama broj 8

Estonia, Ukraine / 2010 / 95

The Game Must Go On / Igra se nastavlja

Angeli Andrikopoulou & Argyris Tsepelikas

Greece / 2010 / 22

Vakha and Magomed / Vakha i Magomed

Marta Prus

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by Kumjana Novakova Arab Spring Indignados March for the Alternative Syntagma square Occupy the World The time has come. To act responsibly and bravely. To show civic maturity and social responsibility. We can not watch the revolution being Televised. Facebooked. Twittered. We are the revolution. The time has come. To ACT.

After studying history at the University of Amsterdam, Catherine van Campen (1970) started working as a director and presenter for the Dutch Public Radio. In 2003 Van Campens story Beware of Pickpockets won the prize for best script in radio drama by the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund. Her radio work was nominated for the Prix Europe in 2005, as well as in 2007 and 2008. For her first documentary, Eternal Mash (2007), Catherine van Campen attended the Documentary Workshop at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where she won the first prize for best script. In 2009, she made her second film with the award winning script Drona & Me, a short documentary about two brothers. Catherine van Campen is currently working on a new film, Painful Painting, about a controversial Dutch painter.

Eleven-year-old Anne is a beautiful girl. The kind of girl you cant take your eyes off. And the longer you look, the more you see her tics. Anne suffers from Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. This makes her body do things she doesnt want it to do, such as suddenly spinning around or licking everything. Anne sometimes finds it hard to cope with her illness, especially at school. Shes afraid that others will bully her or laugh at her. Anne therefore tries to keep her tics in check, although that isnt easy. She prefers to fly through life, so no one would notice anything. When flying, shes at her best. The youth documentary Flying Anne shows how Anne lives her life with her tics. Her tics, in the end, she doesnt want to lose either. Festivals/awards Best Short award at DocuWest, Golden, USA / Best Short Documentary, Hot Docs, Toronto, 2011 / FOCUS Film Festival in Redding, USA, 2011 / Best Short Documentary, Visions du Rel, Nyon, 2011 / Best Documentary Superfest International Disability Film Festival, 2011 / Audience Award for Best Short Film, International Film Festival, Boston, 2011.

Argyris Tsepelikas is an awardwinning cinematographer based in Athens. His previous work includes: Every Day After 4 (2007), Sugartown: the Bridegrooms (2007) and Sugartown: the Day After (2009). He has worked as a filmmaker, director and DOP in short films and documentary series for last ten years.

In a crowded part of a small city, each day after school, Alexandra, Vlad, Chrysa and the rest of their crew gather in front of Christos house to play soccer until bedtime. But as soon as they begin, the neighbours assault them with curses, threats and sometimes violence. The kids reaction is fiercely defiant. Theres nowhere else to go. Alexandra decides to talk to the mayor and insist that he see the situation for himself. Thus begins a yearlong campaign to get the town to build them a play area, during which we learn about the kids lives and perceptions.

Festivals/awards Thessaloniki Doc Festival, 2010 / International Film Festival of Patmos, 2010 / Festival of Film and Culture in Patras, 2010 / Greek Film Festival, Australia, 2010 / Chicago International Angeli Andrikopoulou studied directing and acting in Greece. She has Childrens Film Festival, 2010 / IDFA Kids & Docs, Amsterdam, worked for a public TV project for people 2010 / One World Human Rights Film Festival, 2011 / Quality of with disabilities and as a kids clown/ entertainer. Her recent work as a director Life Award, Patras International Film Festival, 2010.includes: Tito Fiction (2006), Every Day After 4 (2007).

Mack is an adventuresome eight-year-old: he won his first motocross race at age three, and his room is now filled with trophies. But the obstacles he faces on the track are nothing compared to what hes already overcome: Mack was born with his heart on the opposite side of his chest, and from the day he was born hes been defying the doctors who claim that he wont Willem Baptist graduated from Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam in 2009 have a long life. He finds his inspiration in his late grandfathers but made his debut in 2007 with the achievements and gets constant support from his sister who, short documentary Almost Blind and because of her allergies, lives in constant fear of going into was awarded the NFTVM Jury prize at anaphylactic shock. the Dutch Film Festival 2008. His nextdocumentary Yuri (2008), a portrait of a former dancer, was nominated for a Fullflower Press Award at Sheffield Doc/ Fest and was selected of the Best of Sheffield program later that year. Most recently Willem directed a short fiction film Donnie, screened at the Rotterdam Shorts program. Willems work has been shown at numerous international film festivals (IDFA, Rotterdam IFF, BFI London, Seattle IFF, Kyiv IFF, Sheffield Doc/Fest). Willem is co-founder of the production company Kaliber Film that focuses on international arthouse films.

Damir Janeek was born on 24 May 1982 in Sarajevo, where he studied TV, film, radio and theatre directing and screenwriting. He lives in Croatia, where he directs and writes and also works as a cinema and film festival selector, film critic, journalist, editor, cinematographer, sound recorder and producer. His films were awarded at international film festivals and his film reviews were awarded at human rights film festivals abroad.

Kinofil is a story of Velimir Ivanievi, the founder of SOS Sarajevo, the first civic association for the prevention of cruelty to animals, the man who was the first in his country to protest against the constant, organised and legalised killing of stray dogs. The association persists in the face of many problems, threats and a lack of understanding. Its members care for animals roaming the streets of Sarajevo whose fate is sad and uncertain. In a country completely insensitive to suffering, killing and mistreatment of animals, a country which had recently been the site of horrible crimes, these people demonstrate the will and determination to keep working without any remuneration. In spite of numerous appeals, an animal shelter was never built in Sarajevo, and the founders of the SOS Centre will never forget the scenes of dogcatchers killing stray dogs. Festivals/awards Stjepan Filipovi Award for Best Documentary, Opuzen Film Festival 2011 / Sarajevo Film Festival / Motovun Film Festival / SEE Paris Film Festival / Chicago Film Festival.

Our heroine stopped praying long ago. As a thirteen-year-old girl she was brought from her native Turkey to Germany to marry one of her cousins. This is how her childhood ended she became the property of a husband who tortured and degraded her. She finally decides to flee, but must continuously be in hiding. Condemned by both families, she has no chance at a normal life, neither as a wife Lesaw Dobrucki is a performer, nor a divorcee. The film is not a typical intervention reportage, musician and director. In 1998 he graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts but a poetic collage comprising of documentary material, family in Warsaw and in 2007 from Andrzej photographs and childrens drawings. This individual life story Wajda Master School of Film Directing reflects the stories of many other girls and women subjected to a where he directed Booth of Fortune and co-directed The Crew. patriarchal law still enforced by tacit consent in the multicultural societies of Western Europe. Festivals/awards 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic / DokuFest, Kosovo / Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland / Sheffield Doc/Fest, England / VERZIO Documentary Film Festival, Hungary / Vilnius Film Shorts, Austria - Second Prize / Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days, Turkey / Womens Film Festival, USA / Expresin En Corto International Film FestivalSpeak Out Against Domestic Violence, Mexico Honorable Mention / 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, Greece / One World Romania Documentary Film Festival / Huesca International Film Festival, Spain / Golden Apricot 8th Yerevan Film Festival, Armenia / CONCORTO Film Festival, Italy / International Human Rights Film Festival, Albania / Dokubazaar, Slovenia / Saratov Sufferings Film Festival, Russia / Cortopotere Short Film Festival, Italy / 6th Batumi International Art House Film Festival (BIAFF), Georgia.

Filipa Reis graduated in Business Management and Administration and completed post-graduate studies in Cinema and Television at the Portuguese Catholic University. She co-produced the documentary Bab Sebta, which received the Marseille Esprance Award at the FIDMarseille 2008 festival, as well as the Award for Best Portuguese Feature Length Documentary at Doclisboa 2008. In July 2008, she founded the Vende-se Filmes production company, where she produces and directs cinematography projects and television programs. Joo Miller Guerra is a Design graduate from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon. With Filipa Reis, he recently completed the documentary Orquestra Gerao, nominated for the National Competition at Doclisboa 2011, and Nada Fazi, a short fiction film nominated for the Molodist Festival 2011 in Kiev. Nuno Baptista was born in Lisbon in 1979. After his studies in Directing at RESTART in July 2005, he began his professional career at Companhia Rui Lopes Graa and at Festival Alkantara where he directs video projects.

Our Home tells the story of Miguel Moreira and Ruben Furtado, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants who live in Portugal but have no legal documents. They are torn between the desire to be full Portuguese citizens and the obstacles they find in their day to day life. Proud of being who they are, they keep on dreaming of their future, reflecting their wishes for a better life. Above all, Michael and Ruben lead us to a question: what kind of identity does a stateless person have? Festivals/awards DocLisboa 2010 Best Portuguese Feature Award & Schools Award / Cinema du Reel 2011 / DOKFEST Munich 2011 / Mediawave 2011.

Marianna Kaat was born and lives in Estonia, Tallinn. She graduated from the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy in Russia in 1986 with a PhD. In 1998, she founded her own production company Baltic Film Production and since then has successfully produced and directed documentary films for the international market, which have won numerous national and international awards. She was awarded the name of The European Trailblazer, one of the seven documentary filmmakers from different regions of the world at MIPDOC 2009 in Cannes. Her filmography includes: The Last Phantoms (2006), In Your Own Words (1990), Now Not Only Off-shore (1989).

In the heart of a Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs retirees, unemployed miners and even the children. Years ago, the towns desperate residents had decided to start mining illegally; they excavate everywhere: in abandoned mines, in the basements of demolished buildings, in the neighboring woods and leisure parks, as well as in their own vegetable gardens. The story focuses on the Sikanov family, which has three children. Fifteen-year-old Yura, the grandson of a once powerful Soviet plant director, puts his dreams on hold in an emotionally riveting struggle to provide for his sisters in the only way possible: by mining, illegally and perilously, for the remaining scraps in the once-thriving Ukrainian coal town. Festivals/awards Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award & The Nicholas School Environmental Award / Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA 2011 / Special Mention - 14th Tallinn Black Nights FF, Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition / Film of the year 2010 - Estonian Cultural Endowment / Zagreb Dox 2011, Croatia Special Mention Movies That Matter Jury / Hot Docs International Film Festival, Toronto 2011 / Krakow Film Festival, Poland 2011 / Prnu International Film Festival, Estonia 2011 / DOCSDF, Mexico.

Joonas Neuvonen was born in Rovaniemi, Finland, in 1979. He moved abroad in 1999, and lived for a couple of years in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco, attending photography classes and BFI film screenings. He returned to Rovaniemi at the end of 2002. He was on the dole and started recording the lives of his closest friends, shooting hundreds of hours of video footage. In 2005 he moved to New Delhi, India, where he attended a course in filmmaking at the Asian Academy of Film and TV. A year and a half later he returned to Helsinki to continue his studies in photography, graphic design and documentary filmmaking. In 2010 he completed the 5-year-long editing process of his first documentary film Reindeerspotting.

Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. He starts his getaway by robbing a supermarket. A few years back, a documentarist by the name of Joonas Neuvonen was a young man living on welfare, using drugs on a daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. Raindeerspotting is the story of Jani. Festivals/awards Jussi Awards 2011, Finland - nominated for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing / Locarno International Film Festival / Stockholm Film Festival / Open City London Documentary Festival / Zurich International Film Festival.

Vakha and Magomed is a short documentary which portrays the everyday struggle of two immigrants from Chechnya, Vakha and his son Magomed. The audience is given an opportunity to observe the daily routine of father and son, as they reveal true affection and care for each other between the mundane chores. Apart from depicting the Marta Prus was born 1987 in Warsaw. harsh reality of the newly arrived immigrants and their She studies directing at the Polish National Film School in d since 2009, life in Warsaw, Poland, what is important is that one can and previously studied history of art see how the bond between the father and the son deepens at the University of Warsaw. She has and how, in spite of the circumstances, they attempt to completed a documentary filmmaking course at Andrzej Wajda Master School of retain their identity. The life story of Vakha and Magomed Film Directing. is never fully told, it simply runs in the background, which makes it possible to highlight some universal values. Festivals/awards International Film Festival of the art of Cinematography Camerimage, Poland / 51st Krakow Film Festival, Poland / New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland / Festival Silhouette de Courts Metrages, France / DOK Leipzig, Germany / 5th MiradasDoc Festival, Spain / 52nd Festival dei Popoli, Italy / Festival International des Ecoles de cinema FIDEC, Belgium / International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA, Netherlands.